Flash Floods in Egypt

Prof. Dr. Abdelazim Negm is a Professor of Water Resources at the Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt since 2004. He got his PhD in 1992 from Zagazig University (ZU) an his Msc from Ain shams University in 1990. He was the vice dean of the Faculty of Engineering of ZU from 12/2008 to 12/2011 and was the head of the Environmental Engineering Dept. at Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Egypt from 10/2013 to 9/2015. He participated in several international projects since 2006 until now. He published more than 300 papers in national and international journals and conferences. Some of his paper were a warded the prize of the best papers. He is the editor of several volumes at the Springer Handbook of Environmental Chemistry series (HEC series). Two volumes was published in May 2017 and one of them was within the top ten in water science for the year 2017. Also, ten volumes are now under production and will be published during the year 2018. Hepublished more than 30 book chapters in Springer and has 86 document indexed in Scopus. He is a reviewer for more than 22 scientific journals and associate editor of some international journals. He is a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences.

• Introduction.- Recent Technologies for Investigating Flash Flood.- Environmental Approaches in Flash Flood.- Hazards and Utilization of Flash Floods in Sinai.- Mitigation of Flash Flood.- Conclusions.